hi.
We have mapped "My Documents" to a share on one of our servers. This share allows us to backup all the users data, I redirect the My Documents to the Server Share where I right click on my documents and move the location to the share then I right click again and say; make available offline.
But:
Windows XP laptop users want to go home and then the data is not there, windows restores the My Documents to the default location.
How can I stop this from happening? I would like the data to be in the My Docs.. folder and then update as soon as the user connects to the network again.
Please Advice:
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[Do you have the mapped drive with the home dirs when you logon offline with the laptops?]
Please explain.
My logon script creates a mapped drive called 'g:\' witch is '\\citrussql\users' . But as soon as they go of the network the mapped drive disappears then windows cannot locate if and every thing turns back to default.
How does your mapped drives work?
g: drive has everyones folders. Every user just has acces to his/her folder. Folder rights.
My logon script looks like this:
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@echo off
\\citrusav\ezaudit\scanner
net use g: /delete
net use g: \\citrussql\users /YES
Exit
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I have the /persistent:yes on.
Where I work I do it this way:
1. Logon Script:
Net use x: \\server\sharedfolder /persistent:yes
2. Move My Document's location in Laptop
- Right click My Documents folder
- Enter target location. Click Move.
3. Enable Offline Files in laptop
- Windows Explorer
- Tools > Folder Options > Offline files
- Select Enable Offline files
4. Right click X: (mapped drive) in laptop
- Click Make Available Online
- Follow Wizard.
Is this what you are doing?
I'm not at work now, so I can't tell you exactly but yes they have read and write. Not full rights, this is not needed.
I don't think you have a security issue this is some other kind of problem. You say you are doing all the steps exactly as I described them before so my next question for you would be the same iamthecreator did. Are this machines running SP2. If not, first install SP2 and all necessary updates and try again.
that`s exactly what I did, where I saw what was going on I created the following:
@echo off
if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" goto XP2000
echo I am Windows 98
\\citrusav\ezaudit\scanner
net use g: /delete
net use g: \\citrussql\users /YES
goto Exit
:XP2000
echo I am Windows 2000 / XP
\\citrusav\ezaudit\scanner
net use g: /delete
net use g: \\citrussql\users /PERSISTENT:YES
goto Exit
:Exit
ok sorted this out, myself? who gets the points?
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by: allocationerrorPosted on 2006-01-30 at 22:50:01ID: 15831138
hi,
on my servers i created a share "Home" on server which is mapped through a logon script to the clients as drive H: persistently.
Then i configure the my documents redirection to H:\%Username%, and it always works...
i guess you also create a mapped drive to the clients with the home dirs in, but maybe the drive isn't mapped if you logon with a laptop OFFLINE, then the H: drive won't exist and windows sets the my documents folder to default on your local hard drive.
Do you have the mapped drive with the home dirs when you logon offline with the laptops?